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Your Local Weather / Re: Chicagoland Weather

« on: December 26, 2010, 04:01:06 PM »

From the Chicago NWS...

Top Weather Events of 2010 - North Central and Northeast Illinois, and Northwest Indiana

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Your Local Weather / Re: Chicagoland Weather

« on: December 14, 2010, 09:38:12 PM »

Wanatah, Indiana (about 50 miles southeast of here) got 33 (yes, thirty-three) inches of snow over the past two days. 

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Your Local Weather / Re: Chicagoland Weather

« on: December 13, 2010, 08:53:29 PM »

Near zero tonight!

I've got several 3-4 foot snow drifts in my backyard.  Northwest Indiana got nailed by lake effect.  It's still falling east of me.

No more 50 mph wind gusts.

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Your Local Weather / Re: Chicagoland Weather

« on: December 05, 2010, 12:46:08 PM »

About 3 inches of snow here.

South Bend will be getting 10-15 inches of lake effect.

Temps well below average. 

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General Weather Chat / Re: When Do You Expect the First Snowfall to Happen In Your Area?

« on: December 03, 2010, 09:13:35 PM »

It's going to happen in Chicagoland tonight!

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General Discussion / Re: Commercials You Loathe

« on: November 25, 2010, 08:28:34 PM »

Quiznos' 5-4-3 if youve seen them

The ones with the shrieky cat voice sung to the tune of Three Blind Mice?   

Those commercials are like fingernails on a blackboard.   

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Your Local Weather / Re: Chicagoland Weather

« on: November 25, 2010, 08:10:45 PM »

I saw tornado video near Chicago.

Near Rockford, about 90 miles NW of Chicago.

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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Timing issues

« on: November 24, 2010, 08:51:52 PM »

IntelliSTAR 21805 has been a little off lately.  For the past several days, it has been late to start (I'll see about 5 seconds of the satellite forecast before the STAR kicks in and does its thing).  Today, it was starting early, while the audio was still saying "And now your local forecast" (and thus, finishing early, so now I'm seeing a few seconds of the satellite forecast at the end).

Thanks.

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General Discussion / Re: Commercials You Loathe

« on: November 14, 2010, 03:32:43 PM »

The Snuggie commercial that sings to the tune of the Macarena. 

That one drives me crazy.   

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General Discussion / Cool It

« on: November 14, 2010, 03:25:19 PM »

Has anybody seen this movie?  It's based on a book of the same title.

Bjorn Lomborg believes in man made global warming, but he also believes that the doomsday scenarios ("An Inconvenient Truth," "The Day After Tomorrow" et al), and many of the proposed "solutions" (CFL light bulbs) are pure BS.

It's only in a few select cities right now.

http://www.coolit-themovie.com/

I (and many experts in the field) don't believe in man-made global warming, but this is thought-provoking.  I'll probably check it out once it hits DVD.

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Your Local Weather / Re: Chicagoland Weather

« on: November 14, 2010, 02:54:06 PM »

It's getting unusually warm now.

Back to reality.   

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General Discussion / Re: Gas prices in your area

« on: November 09, 2010, 08:06:05 PM »

I hope you're right, but with these recent moves by the Federal Reserve (and subsequent weakening/devaluing of the Dollar), I fear that we may soon see new highs.

This article does a good job of explaining the spike...

http://www.detnews.com/article/20101109/BIZ/11090373/1414/METRO05/Fill-up-fears--Gas-jumps-to-$3-a-gallon

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General Discussion / Re: Election Day Discussion & Coverage

« on: November 09, 2010, 07:49:17 PM »

Well, it is time to put up or shut up. The Republicans have been running their yaps a lot, so lets see them back it up with actual plans that can help the American people. The clock is ticking. 

Democrats still control the Senate and the Presidency, so technically they still have the overall majority.

Republicans have the House majority, but it's not a 2/3 vetoproof majority, so Obama can very easily stop them.

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General Discussion / Re: Election Day Discussion & Coverage

« on: November 07, 2010, 09:07:06 PM »

Democrats took over in 2006 due to the reckless behavior of the Republicans. Everything was going fairly well until the Iraq war. Once it became obvious that Sadam was bluffing about WMDs, the war became an issue that divided the country. It was because of that (and spending) that people went back to the Democrats. Same thing happened again in 2008. They also elected Obama, under the misguided notion (I admit that I was duped too) that he was a centrist and would put an end to corrpution and "the poltics of the past." Instead, he took what Bush was doing and ran with it. In the case of spending, he not only ran with it, he doubled the speed! He supported/pushed bills and ideas that were not popular with most Americans (like the healthcare bill and sucking up to our enemies). As a result, most people voted Republican this time. Not because they had faith in the Republicans again, but because it was their only other choice. They were voting against Obama, not for Republicans. Now we (conservatives) just need to make sure that they follow through on their promises.

That sums it up perfectly.  The midterms of 1994 put an end to Bill Clinton's big government tendencies, and I'm sure the new electees are hell bent on doing the same thing to Obama.  Too bad nobody stopped big government Bush when they had the chance.   

I never bought into Obama's 'ending corruption' claim.  Remember, he is a CHICAGO politician, and that machine pretty much wrote the book on political corruption.

Oh, and according to Wikileaks, Saddam may not have been bluffing after all.

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General Discussion / Re: Election Day Discussion & Coverage

« on: November 07, 2010, 08:29:28 PM »

Do you not see any problems with one party controlling the house, senate and presidency? Balance my friend is key

Three words:  Checks And Balances.   

America typically operates better under a divided government.